ACORN is "tearing the fabric of democracy." Obama's tax plan is "socialism." Obama "pals around with terrorists." Obama needs to "come clean" about any number of manufactured issues. Obama and his supporters are "Liberal, leftist, and un-American." These are rhetorical jabs that are devoid of truth. Many others, which are also dishonest, are based on the out of context manipulation of facts. While both campaigns, indeed every presidential campaign, trades in the latter form of deception, the use of outright lies seems to have increased and/or expanded sharply in the last two or three presidential elections.
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